AAAAAARGHHHHHHH.......Junk!

[Technoid]

At the shop where Im working we have tons of junk!

Dozens of old vga monitors
Dozens of obscure computers (older than 8080's)
Dozens of junk macs
Tons of Manuals to computers that where old when i started school!!
And JUNK!
Dozens of printers, inkjets, lasers, matrix, (we don't have any thermals funny enough)
Tons of dusty cables that don't work!
Did i mention JUNK?

We have a really large sellar that is filled to the brimm with JUNK!

And that the problem my Boss never threw anything out so we got 20 years of computer JUNK!

To make everything Worse; We are at the werge of a big reorganizatoin of the office floor and we have lots of space where we could move some of the workstations but its filled with JUNK!!!

And ofcourse the boss don't want to throw anything away!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGHHH..........

[Marshmallowman]

commiserations...working/living with a hoarder is a royal pain

[The PIT]

Just wait till your boss goes on Holiday and then chuck it thats what we do.

[impact]

sell it on ebay... seriously, some people have a fetish for those things and they will pay big bucks to get them...

[Technoid]

The Boss IS on Holiday!

Guess if he is going to be surprised

I will move the repair shop section upstars again!

And the boss downstars

[breezer]

I've still got my Old Acorn Aton, Theory and Practice Manual, from the days when it took 10 minutes to load an operating system on a cassette, I think the atom is still in the shed.
And at work we have c64's bbc's doomsday video disks, aui transcevers - a whole whord of goodies, (or useless junk)
Soome of it was so expensive at the time so it still has an asset value thought is no use to anyone, Now who wants a copy of dos, lotus123 and dbase3 all working from a single 5.25' floppy disk.
breezer

[Technoid]

Well, i might mention that we have twice the amount of usable junk(stuff that actualy is worth to save) than pure junk

[rugger]

Originally posted by Technoid
Well, i might mention that we have twice the amount of usable junk(stuff that actualy is worth to save) than pure junk

Ouch, that is much worse. Its damned hard to throw stuff away you think you might be able to use again.

Shudder

[Lizzard[MPE]]

make computer sculptures

[The PIT]

Time for a car boot sale.

[Technoid]

Well, now things are starting to slide....
Its like a game of tetris!
Once you clearde some space it just falls into place!
Tommorow we will carry furniture upp and down a spiralstairway
And I have already been an inch from death!

[RichL]

Sell it to NASA!

I saw an article yesterday on BBC News that NASA are desperately searching for old computers for bits for the Space Shuttles.
Apparently they were designed using 8" disk drives and 8086 chips, which are rather hold to get hard of.

I wouldnt have thought it that hard to upgrade to an x86 compatible CPU, although the power drain of a series of Pentium IV's running away might mean they have to fill the shuttles cargo bay with batteries

[seether]

jeez, I feel for you. I actually have two great laser printers because my friend's boss likes to throw away and replaces something whenever it makes a noise he doesn't recognize

What are the odds of talking to him and putting the rightspin on things to convince him of the junk pile's pure obselescense , then maybe find some schools or something that could use the stuff?

[rugger]

Originally posted by vwdrivrco
jeez, I feel for you. I actually have two great laser printers because my friend's boss likes to throw away and replaces something whenever it makes a noise he doesn't recognize

What are the odds of talking to him and putting the rightspin on things to convince him of the junk pile's pure obselescense , then maybe find some schools or something that could use the stuff?

Noooooo, don't donate old junk to schools. Unless it is at least pentium 2, they seriously don't need it and will probably hate your guts for doing it. Having seen some of the utter crap that is occasionally donated to schools (like Amiga 500's and such, WTF do you do with a single, old Amiga 500 in a school full of networked PC's) you end up hoping nobody donates you your old equipment.

And what is worse, old hardware is far more difficult to support than newer hardware. With old hardware, everything is half broken, has different components, and are in general unreliable and expensive to maintain.

So all you would be doing is costing the school the cost of disposal of all this obsolete equipment.

[Technoid]

The Boss will still kill me, But Now I only have 3-4 tables to carry from their old place to their new.
5 monitors 3 computers, a hub, a laserprinter, to much CAT cable, Junk, hoplescases, deadcomputers, Junk......

And we still lack much needed cleared space....

And boss comes back at thursday evening....(he probably has a newly purchased shotgun by that time )